8 Oc I took Command
as Lieuten of the Guard to Serve till 8 Oc tomorrow night Showery & I was a
pertaker of it being up & around examining guard all night Some of the boys
moved a shop that was building for cook shop
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91
8½ Oc I went of
guard duty afternoon I drilled the Co evening I took A R Murdock & Calvert &
went to Cozen M J Kelleys the little boy is almost well. I seen N Udell Sergt
of the 17th Reg. Iowa vol. & my old friend Henry Wheelen at the Demming
house.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91
We had a verry heavy
rain before day wett us in our tents I mustered the company & took them out
on Dress perade evening I took I. Spooner went to Coz Kelleys then to the
Demming house then to an Oyster shop & had a fine dish of Oysters returned
to Camp & at 11 Oc nite the rain commenced to pour down & we took it in
our tent.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91
At ½ past 7 Oc the
36th Reg of Iowa Vol. formed in line in Camp Lincoln Keokuk & at ½ past 8
Oc we ware mustered into the US Service by Lieut Ball mustering officer The
boys had a good time over it we had one rejected but have a full company yet
every man that we can get in with we had a good dress perade
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91
We had a shower
while on dress perade I have put in the day making out pay rools for our
company & it has not been a source of much comfort to me but knowing the
wants of the boys & all the other company being at it I reconcile it as a
military necessity. I got K P Morrison to preach in our tent & I exorted
& closed after him text ye will not come to me that ye may have life
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91
About 4 Oc I awoke
by the sound of the fire & church bells there was a fine frame building
burnt down the blaze looked nice but it was a source of grief to me at 1 Oc
P.M. I was in the city getting 2 sick men of our company that were in the
hospitals to sign the pay roll & the alarm of fire was given I assisted in
running the Ingine to the fire but little dammage done I put in most of this
day getting the men to sign the pay rolls 8 in number
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91
I have been working
on the pay rolls & signed my name as witness on them seven hundred & 84
times that is 8 times to each man & we have 98 men in our Co I had the pay
rolls examined & they are all right & pronounced a first rate job
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91
We drilled some
& was on dress perade in the rain. I visited the hospitals & talked to
the sick. the Fanny Bulley Steamer arived last night with between 300 & 400
sick & disabled soldiers I assisted some in getting them off
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91
Rainey nearly all
day & we had a wet time of it on dress perade I visited the hospitals
evening by request I preached in Capt Vermilions tent we got the Blankets for
our boys today
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91
Our Company messed
of in 5 messes this day we have all been on mess duty till now. we drew shoes
for our boys this day & not before they needed them
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 91-2
Morning cold with
heavy frost our Reg was all paid of this Saterday each except the commissioned
officers recd $40.00 the commissioned officers will receive their pay the last
of this month Our Captain arived this afternoon has been absent 2 weeks against
tuesday morning
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 92
11 Oc I attended
church on Exchange Street the paster preached text 126th Psalm 6th v 3 Oc I
& the Miss Kelleys attended at the Chatham Square Church a discourse by Dr
Sturtevant President of Ilinoise Colledge Isaiah 58th & 6th ve 5 Oc we was
at dress perade the ladies took supper with us at the camps I then went home
with them & attended preaching at the African church
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 92
We ware on battalion
drill this afternoon for the first time afternoon Company drill & 5 Oc
dress perade. Capt John Craig & Judge Knapp in town.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 92
It was the day of
our state & county elections & there was little stur in the Camp. I was
officer of the guard today & I plased a line of guards across the camp
between the two Regiments to prevent any mixing on election day & every
thing passed off with little or no disturbance.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 92
I am greatly
rejoised my children arived at Camp & we are all now comfortable at Coz
Kelleys they were out to see us on batallion drill & dress perade this
afternoon.
SOURCE: Edgar R.
Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October
1925, p. 92
NEW ORLEANS, March 3, 1849.
MY DEAR SON,—I was
glad to hear by your letter of the 18th ultimo that you had returned from
Missouri. Your journey must have been a dreadful one, but you will find some
compensation for it in the profits which you expect to realize.
My health is better,
and I can again walk. I hope to reach home toward the last of this month. The
weather is now fine here, and I am desirous not to return until the winter
breaks.
I have heard that
Colonel Allen has discontinued his school, but I have not heard whether Henry
is admitted at West Point. I declined going to Washington at the Call Session.
As you were absent,
I sent to Richard Pendell a letter on the Emancipation question. As I regret to
hear that it is not popular, I suppose that my letter will bring on me some
odium. I nevertheless wish it published. I owe that to the cause, and to
myself, and to posterity.
I am delighted to
hear that dear little Lucy is better. You are perfectly right to take her to
the sea-bath, if it be recommended; but ought you not to think of the Arkansas
Springs? My love to Susan and your children.
SOURCE: Calvin
Colton, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, p. 585
NEW ORLEANS, March 7, 1849.
MY DEAR SIR,—I
received your last letter, transmitting one which is returned. Many thanks are
due to you for various communications received during the past winter, and
which afforded me much valuable information. I should have before acknowledged
them, but for the consequences of my fall, which for a time disabled me from
both walking and writing.
The project of
assuming the debt of Texas on the consideration of her relinquishment of her
territorial claim beyond the Nueces, is worthy of serious examination. The
difficulty in the way will be the Free Soil question.
I am most anxious
that you should obtain some good appointment under the present Administration.
You, I think, eminently deserve it. Whether I can aid you or not, I can not at
present say. My relations to the President, on my part, and, as far as I know,
on his, are amicable; but I have had no proof of any desire to confer or
consult with me on any subject. Some of his warm and confidential friends, I
have reason to know, view me with jealousy, if not enmity. While self-respect
will restrain me from volunteering any opinion or advice, unless I know it will
be acceptable, public duty will equally restrain me from offering any
opposition to the course of his Administration, if, as I hope and anticipate,
it should be conducted on principles which we have so long cherished and
adhered to.
I hope to reach
home, and to see you in all this month, when there will be time enough to talk
over all these and other matters.
I did not go to the
Call Session, because, supposing that it would be short and formal, and without
any serious division, I disliked encountering, in my lame condition, a journey
so long in the winter. I am, etc.
SOURCE: Calvin
Colton, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, p. 585-6
NEW ORLEANS, March 13, 1849.
MY DEAR SIR,—I
received your favor of the 3d instant. I concluded not to attend the Call
Session, which I could not have done without much personal discomfort.
The Cabinet of
General Taylor was not, it seems, exactly as you supposed. Some of the
appointments excited surprise. I think that he might have made one of greater
strength. I am truly concerned that Letcher was overlooked. I had strong hopes
that he would have been appointed, and I thought I had reason for them.
I think it quite
likely that you may be right in supposing that neither I nor my friends will
find much favor at Court. As to myself, having given no just cause for its
frowns, I can bear them without difficulty; but the President will be unwise if
he neglects or proscribes my friends. Without them, he never could have been
elected.
While I have no
desire to go into the Convention, I shall make no decision until my return. I
leave this city on the 17th instant, and stopping on the river at one or two
places, I hope to reach home about the last of the month.
SOURCE: Calvin
Colton, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Henry Clay, p. 586
Wounded men are
taken out from among us to be sent back. All windows are ordered closed. Owing
to this order two of our fellows rigged up a skeleton dummy and dressed in blue
and a cap which they stood at the window. Soon after it was fired upon, and an
hour later it was poked up at another window and two guns banged at it. Soon
after they swung it up at another window. Two more Rebel guns burned powder.
Every time the glass was scattered over the room to the annoyance of men, but
when they growled the fellows yelled out we have got to have air. This time a
sergeant and several guards with bayonetted guns came up to look after the dead
and wounded, but found none. The boys dissected their artificial Yankee and the
event was a mystery to Rebels until in the afternoon at a later performance,
the trick was discovered by a man posted on the stairway and an officer of the
prison came up and vented his wrath very savagely, but did not find the fellows
who had fooled them.
SOURCE: John Worrell
Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville
and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, p. 47
"Grant
defeated, sho'," exclaimed a lieutenant who appeared on our floor this
morning. We draw no rations today. Tomorrow we expect to start for Georgia.
Savannah, Americus and Macon are points named.
Buchanan sat in Federal chair
While Rebs purloined our cash and guns.
They stole our forts,—'twas all unfair,—
From office every Rebel runs,
With none to him succeed,
And took these guns and turned about,
While several States secede,
And boasted they were brave and stout
And sneered the North they'd bleed,
And "Yankee armies put to rout
For we've stole the stuff they need;"
And in the Northern face did flout
Insults their crimes did breed.
Buchanan turned with mien devout
A Nation's brittle reed!
Said: "North, I said, 'twould thus come out,
If their threats you failed to heed;
I begged these States not to go out,
But can't help it if they do secede.
Now, friends, if you would win 'em back,
Drop down upon your knees,
Like slaves who fear the lash's crack,
And try again to please;
For, if you fail this act to do
Secession stands-alack!
For if these States shall choose to go,
You can't coerce them back!"
So up they hoist a Rebel flag;
They shake it in the Nation's face
An insolent old slavery rag
To all the land disgrace!
Then Lincoln to the loyal said:
"What will my brothers do?
You as the people, I the head,
To Justice must be true!
Come forth to meet this traitorous horde;
Defeat them where they stand;
They'd wreck the Nation with the sword,
Come and redeem the land!
They challenge us; shall we be brave,
Or cowards shall we be?
From basest treason shall we save
What God proclaimed was free?"
"We're coming, honest Abraham,”
Replied the loyal North,
"The plea of tyranny we'll damn;
By thousands we come forth;
For slavery we much abhor,
We've borne its insults many years,
And though we mourn the woes of war,
Our honor knows no fear!"
Thus awoke the loyal host,
E'en where Treason claimed to reign;
And though they strive, and threat, and boast,
Their striving shall be vain.
SOURCE: John Worrell
Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville
and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, p. 47-49
